Even Texas Has Seen the Light

Yes, indeedee, politics does make for strange bedfellows. I never thought that I would want to link to Aljazeera.com. But they have the uplifting story of The Daily Texan calling in an editorial for the resignation of Dick Cheney calling him "a pandering liar and a corporate tool”. Now, I have very seldom looked positively at ANYTHING that comes out of Texas. The list is almost endless: Bush, DeLay, Enron, Big Oil, bigger hair, big, stupid belt buckles, big egos (for no apparent reason), line dancing, the Cowboys, the Astros, pickup trucks, and just general stupidity. When a newspaper in Texas, even a college one, calls for the removal of the biggest threat to democracy, you have to think twice about maybe there's some good in Texas after all. In discussing why Big Oil executives lied before Congress last week about meeting with Cheney early in 2001 to help write the disastrous energy policy the adminstration has foisted on the American consumer, the editors posit that they lied "because they fear being associated with the Vice President, who assembled an energy bill that ignored the needs of consumers and was rigidly biased towards energy industries like coal and oil, whose executives and lobbyists sought and were sought out to influence and guide our nation's energy policy directly into their coffers”. As proof of why Cheney must go, they point out his seeming inability to ever tell the truth, “Over the course of his tenure in office he has proved himself to be a dependable geyser of misinformation, revisionism and bald-faced lies. From the hubris of his pre-Iraq lies "[Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons" to his more recent lies (denying on a cable news show that he was Lewis Libby's source for outed CIA agent Valerie Plame's name) our Vice President just can't seem to prevent himself from telling tales." And most entertainingly, they show that Cheney even lies about lies, "Cheney even lies about his previous lies, so as to not get caught lying, as is the case with his statements regarding Mohamed Atta on June 20, 2004. In that instance, Cheney directly contradicted a video document of himself on a previous news show, saying the exact things he had just denied he had ever said". Come on, Dick, for once in your miserable life, do the right thing...resign! Even your home state wants you out. Well, technically Cheney quickly shifted his residence to Wyoming in 2000 as he was picking himself to be vice-president...this guy even lies about where he lives!